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Throughout elementary and middle and high school I only attended public schools. In my elementary school, I only can remember 1 male teacher. His name was Mr.Erickson, and he was my 5th-grade teacher. He and his wife taught together at the school and both my sister had both Mr. and Mrs.Erickson.  I remember him being such an amazing teacher. It really did not seem out of place to me though. Looking back I am more aware that he was one of the only male teachers in the whole school. We always had male principals though.  In the TedTalk by Amber Briggle, she talked about her personal experience with having a transgender son. She talked a lot about how she always knew that she had a son, not a daughter. Transitioning is hard for the child but can also be difficult for the parents. Briggle talked about how at first she still wanted to have her daughter but she could dress differently. She said, “it's easy to make snap judgments and discriminate against an entire group of people tha...

Do I have the full picture? No, I don't think I do but I work every day to try and find pieces of it. I don't think anyone can truly ever have the full picture but is up to us to try and find at least some of it. When I was younger I was in a pretty diverse school but was never directly best friends with someone who was another ethnicity/race than me. Luckily I have never really been around extreme racism of any kind, especially not like Autumn Roberson-Manahan. The sad thing is that people of color are normally deemed as not honest, and abusing the system, they just have a bad image in our society. Why? Is it because in school we are never really told the bad part of history that involved White Males. Is it because the news focuses on people of color who mess up? I think all of it plays a big part. It also makes me sad because it does not and should not matter your race/ethnicity, you are your own person. The majority of the time, white students go to school and feel like it i...